An international team led by researchers from King's College London (KCL) has now found that stubbornly persistent blood ...

Usually, when a small group of animals becomes isolated on an island, they lose genetic diversity. This puzzling little spider flipped the script.

Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionize the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human genome—comprising about 17% of the genome. It is commonly called a "jumping gene" or ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...

Researchers discovered that bowhead whales achieve extraordinary longevity and cancer resistance through highly efficient and ...

Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can ...

New scientific article warns of loss of consumer trust unless proper analysis is done. Report: Claire Robinson ...

Women who consumed more ultra-processed foods (UPFs) showed distinct DNA methylation patterns, mostly reduced across key gene ...

The DNA belonged to an extinct horse genus and is the oldest genome ever collected from an open-air site. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: ...

Ultra-low-pass whole genome sequencing (ULP-WGS) of circulating tumor DNA appears to provide important prognostic information regarding patients with large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL), according to ...